"Luxury editions with a new graphic design of three of Isabel Allende's greatest hits gathered in an elegant and sophisticated box. The edition comes with an exclusive booklet signed by the author of The House of the Seven Women , Leticia Wierzchowski.
In this booklet, Leticia writes about Isabel Allende's life, her legacy as a writer, and discusses the three works in the box set. Her text is accompanied by previously unpublished photographs provided by Isabel herself.
This box set includes three of the most celebrated works by Isabel Allende, the world's most widely read Spanish-language writer: The House of the Spirits , Daughter of Fortune , and The Island Beneath the Sea. The editions feature luxurious finishes, including soft-touch hardcovers and gold hot-stamping . All housed in a sophisticated and elegant hard-shell box, which includes a booklet with exclusive text by Letícia Wierzchowski.
This is the ideal gift for fans of the writer who are interested in different editions of her most beloved titles and the perfect invitation for readers who want to discover the work of Isabel Allende, whose scope and grandeur place her alongside giants of Latin American magical realism such as Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Juan Rulfo.
The House of Spirits – 504 pages.
His first novel, published in 1982, The House of the Spirits, quickly became an absolute critical and sales success, and is today one of the mythical titles of Latin American literature.
The House of the Spirits is both an emblematic family saga and a tale of a turbulent period in the history of a nondescript Latin American country. Isabel Allende builds a world driven by spirits and fills it with expressive and very human inhabitants. The passions, struggles, and secrets of the Trueba family span three generations and a century of violent transformations, culminating in a crisis that drives the patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Isabel Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hate are more complex and enduring than the political loyalties that pit them against each other.
A decade after its release, it was adapted for the cinema, in a super production starring icons such as Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Irons and Antonio Banderas
Daughter of Fortune – 440 pages.
A vibrant portrait of an era marked by violence and greed, Daughter of Fortune is a book about the rediscovery of love, friendship, compassion, and courage, and is populated by characters who will forever remain in the memories and hearts of readers.
Abandoned as a baby in 19th-century Chile, Eliza Sommers was raised by a prestigious English family in Valparaíso, where she fell in love with Joaquín Andieta, one of her adoptive uncle's employees. The discovery of gold in California in 1849 mobilizes half the country, who do not hesitate to set sail and pursue their fortune—including Joaquín, who promises her marriage as soon as he returns with his pockets full of gold. But Eliza is unwilling to wait and sets off clandestinely for California in search of her beloved. Traveling hidden in the hold of a sailboat in the company of men and women drawn by the gold rush, the young woman meets Tao Chi'en, a Chinese doctor who leads her on an unforgettable journey through the mysteries and contradictions of the human condition.
The Island Beneath the Sea – 528 pages.
In the late 18th century, in Saint-Domingue, in what is now Haiti, sugarcane plantations transformed the French-colonized island into the richest colony in the world. Sugar was sweet gold, and cutting the cane, crushing it, and turning it into molasses was not the work of people, but of animals, as the planters said.
Toulouse Valmorain had just turned twenty when he was urgently summoned to the colony. Upon taking over the administration of the Habitation Saint-Lazare, the young man of letters, who planned to pursue a career in science in France, purchased Zarité, a tiny nine-year-old slave, to do the housework.
But Zarité—Tété—was born with a lucky star: an orphan, she received paternal love from the old slave Zacharie, who taught her to dance, for "a slave who dances is free... while dancing." She also learned from Tante Rose, the mambo and "leaf doctor," the mysteries of the loas and the secrets to healing and easing the pain of her brothers and sisters of color. She fell in love with Gambo, the handsome slave warrior, and with him, she discovered love. She had four children and a grandson. And throughout her life, she had only one aspiration: freedom.
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